American - Writer | September 12, 1880 - January 29, 1956
It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man.
H. L. Mencken
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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.
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I never smoked a cigarette until I was nine.
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Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.
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If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.
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No one in this world, so far as I know - and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me - has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.
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We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.
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Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
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When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.
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Alimony - the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.
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Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.
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